Sour Apples by Paul Jantzen
The year was 1975, and that summer would prove epic for Jimmy Hamilton. Imagine, an eleven-year-old boy with an imagination so powerful that he uses it like others would use a compass. Jimmy Hamilton sets out for the adventure of a lifetime. But summer, with all its promise, throws him a curveball, and he loses his fort on three separate occasions to unwanted squatters. He comes to discover each new unwelcomed tenant proves more difficult to evict than the last. His plans have a modicum of success but each comes with unintended consequences.
Add to that mix, the prettiest girl his age, a baseball diamond, a groundhog, a snapping turtle, a boy with a heightened olfactory acuity, and the town vagrant and Jimmy soon finds his summer adventure is more than he expected.
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Author Bio:
Paul Jantzen grew up surrounded by baseball diamonds, tree forts, and the kind small town adventures that shape a lifetime of stories. Blending nostalgia with humor, Paul Jantzen creates fiction that resonates with all readers.
Inspired by the classic summers of the 1970’s, he wrote his debut novel, Sour Apples, as a tribute to those messy times where adventures went hand in hand with misadventures.
When not writing or telling stories, Paul can be found outdoors doing his own adventuring, or listening to vintage music from the same era and spending time with his wife and German shepherds.